Vestia (gastropod)

Vestia
	Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.383175 - Vestia (Vestia) gulo (Bielz, 1859) - Clausiliidae - Mollusc shell.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Genus:	Vestia; Hesse, 1916 [1]
Synonyms
	Uncinaria Vest, 1867 nec Frölich, 1789;

Vestia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Paul Hesse named Vestia as a nomen novum for Uncinaria Vest, 1867, which was preoccupied by its senior homonym Uncinaria Frölich, 1789, a genus of nematode.^[1]

Species[]

Species:^[2]

Vestia elata (Rossmässler, 1836)
Vestia gulo (Bielz, 1859)
Dedov, 2012
(Nordsieck, 1972)
Vestia ranojevici (Pavlović, 1912)
(Brancsik, 1890)
Vestia turgida (Rossmässler, 1836)

References[]

^ Hesse, P. (1916). "Kritische Fragmente. XVI. Zur Nomenklatur". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 48 (3): 124.
^ "Vestia P.Hesse, 1916". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 17 October 2021.

Nomenclator Zoologicus info

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[1] Hesse, P. (1916). "Kritische Fragmente. XVI. Zur Nomenklatur". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 48 (3): 124.

[GBIF-2] "Vestia P.Hesse, 1916". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 17 October 2021.

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